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- Title
Fully Eugenol‐Based Epoxy Thermosets: Synthesis, Curing, and Properties.
- Authors
Zhang, Yuehong; Zhai, Mengjiao; Ma, Fei; Li, Yuzhan; Lyu, Bin; Liu, Tuan; Gao, Zhenhua; Wang, Liwei; Vincent, Dan; Kessler, Michael R.
- Abstract
Eugenol‐based epoxy monomer (Eu‐EP) is prepared here, followed by curing with a novel eugenol‐derived diamine (Eu‐DA) curing agent for fully eugenol‐based epoxy thermosets. The cure behavior, thermal stability, mechanical properties, and thermomechanical properties of these eugenol‐based epoxy resins are investigated and compared with a partially biobased epoxy thermoset prepared from diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) and Eu‐DA. Both epoxy materials exhibit storage moduli higher than 2.1 GPa at room temperature. The tensile strength of Eu‐EP/Eu‐DA (21.9 MPa) is comparable to that of the DGEBA/Eu‐DA (24.3 MPa) thermosets and the epoxy thermoset cured from DGEBA and Eu‐DA shows a higher glass transition temperature than those from Eu‐EP and Eu‐DA. The synthesis strategy of Eu‐DA and Eu‐EP shows great potential to be applied in other biobased building blocks with hydroxyl groups. Overall, eugenol is a renewable resource to develop high value‐added chemicals and sustainable polymers with comparable properties to petroleum‐based counterparts.
- Subjects
EPOXY resins; GLASS transition temperature; CURING; THERMOMECHANICAL properties of metals; RENEWABLE natural resources; HYDROXYL group
- Publication
Macromolecular Materials & Engineering, 2022, Vol 307, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1438-7492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mame.202100833